American Journal of Psychotherapy

Publication date: 01 October 2015

Psychotherapy is an instrument for remediation of psychological deficits and conflict resolution, as well as an instrument for growth and self-cultivation. In fact, psychotherapy is the finest form of life education. All of this is done without ...

Publication date: 01 October 2015

Grief, the psychological reaction to the loss of a significant other, varies complexly in its cause, experience, evolution, and prognosis. Although most bereaved individuals experience a normal grieving process, some develop complicated grief (CG) or ...

Publication date: 01 October 2015

Objectives: The early therapeutic alliance is an important predictor for therapy outcome. However, knowledge about predictors of the therapeutic alliance is still limited. We examined if patients’ self-presentational behaviors can predict the early ...

Publication date: 01 October 2015

Objectives: The majority of psychologists experience therapist crying in therapy (TCIT). This study aimed to determine typical clinical contexts for, and psychologists’ experiences of, TCIT. Method: Data was examined from 411 psychologists’ and psychology ...

Publication date: 01 October 2015

Davanloo’s Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy has been the subject of various reviews. Davanloo has published extensively on his early work, but there have been no publications on his most recent work—most notably his Montreal Closed-circuit ...

Publication date: 01 October 2015

Davanloo’s Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy has been the subject of various reviews. The first article in this series focused on a review of Davanloo’s early work as well as a discussion of some of his most recent research findings. A case from ...

Publication date: 01 October 2015